Rumble with Xerath
How to Synergize Rumble and Xerath
based on 1,962 Rumble with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rumble Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Rumble vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Xerath
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
Advice to Understand How Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Rumble Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rumble sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xerath helps Rumble perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rumble plays on the same team as Xerath, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may signal that Xerath doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xerath.
Additionally, when Rumble plays with Xerath on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Xerath does a poor job of covering Rumble during teamfights.
Synergies between Rumble and Xerath
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no one best companion for Rumble that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Xerath is a relatively poor companion for Rumble. By playing on the same side as Rumble, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Rumble and Xerath that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Xerath has a lower difficulty than Rumble. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Xerath comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Rumble and Xerath together, you may not be providing your side much sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rumble in order to work well with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Rumble and Xerath synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Morellonomicon, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Xerath than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Rumble boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when playing alongside Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Rumble and Xerath pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Xerath with Rumble are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.